Discharge ready date

The Urgent and emergency care recovery plan (published on 30 January 2023) committed to publishing, by the start of winter 2023, a metric or suite of metrics based on the time from a patient’s discharge-ready date to their actual date of discharge.

This publication will be classed as an official statistic in development and include only those trusts providing acceptable data throughout the reporting period.

Background and scope

The suite of metrics report on the percentage of discharges within certain thresholds and the total bed days after discharge ready date for patients discharged within certain thresholds.

Data are shown at national and provider organisation level.

This dataset is for all acute trusts and more information on the metrics and exclusions can be found in the technical guidance file further down.

Data

Excel files

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-September-2023-revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-October-2023-revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-November2023

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-December-2023-revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-January-2024-revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-February-2024-revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-March-2024-revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-April-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-May-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-June-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-July-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-August-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-September-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-October-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-November-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-December-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-January-2025-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-February-2025-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-March-2025-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-April-2025-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-webfile-May-2025

Notes:

December 2023 – DRD October data file revised due to University Birmingham Hospitals not appearing in the UTLA figures.

June 2024 – DRD March data file revised due to Wolverhampton, Worcestershire and York UTLAs not appearing in the acceptable UTLA figures.

February 2025 – DRD November data file revised due to additional provider that was acceptable in HODF data but had submitted under a site code rather than the main code so had not been picked up in the original production of November 2024 data.

July 2025 – Revisions to Discharge Ready Date data were processed for the months of April 2024 to April 2025 (inclusive) and were published on 10th July 2025. In addition to revising the data we have also released more information than was previously available for April 2024 to August 2024, this means that the full suite of discharge ready date information is now available at national, regional, ICB, trust and UTLA from April 2024 onwards.

CSV file

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-Sept2023-Mar2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-April-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-May-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-June-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-July-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-August-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-September-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-October-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-November-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-December-2024-Revised

Discharge-Ready-Date-monthly-data-csv-January-2025-Revised